Tradespersons' Rights (Cost Recovery) Amendment Regulations 2006 (No. 1) (Cth)

Tradespersons’ Rights (Cost Recovery) Amendment Regulations 2006 (No. 1)¹

Select Legislative Instrument 2006 No. 143

I, PHILIP MICHAEL JEFFERY, Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Tradesmen’s Rights Regulation Act 1946.

Dated 22 June 2006

P. M. JEFFERY

Governor‑General

By His Excellency’s Command

KEVIN ANDREWS

Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations

Name of Regulations

These Regulations are the Tradespersons’ Rights (Cost Recovery) Amendment Regulations 2006 (No. 1).

Commencement

These Regulations commence on 1 July 2006.

Amendment of Tradespersons’ Rights (Cost Recovery) Regulations 1993

Schedule 1 amends the Tradespersons’ Rights (Cost Recovery) Regulations 1993.

Schedule 1 Amendments

(regulation 3)

[1] Subregulation 3 (1)

after

Subject to subregulations (3) and (4)

insert

and regulation 4

[2] Subregulation 3 (3)

omit

The fee payable to the Department in respect of an application for a trade certificate is $100 if:

insert

No fee is payable to the Department in respect of an application for a trade certificate if:

[3] After regulation 3

insert

Application fee — reapplication after unsuccessful application

(1)This regulation applies if:

(a)an application for a trade certificate (the original application) is refused; and

(b)the applicant subsequently applies for the same kind of trade certificate (the new application).

(2)If the new application includes information that was not available to the committee for the purposes of the original application, the fee payable to the Department in respect of the new application is $300.

(3)If the new application does not include information that was not available to the committee for the purposes of the original application:

(a)the fee payable to the Department in respect of the new application is $300; but

(b)if a trade certificate is granted on the basis of the new application:

(i)the amount of the fee in respect of the new application is taken to become zero; and

(ii)the Secretary must refund to the applicant the amount paid in respect of the new application.

Note

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